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Linda Caroline Simmons

Linda Caroline Simmons, 80, a resident of the Gilman community, Elkins, passed away Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, at the United Hospital Center at Bridgeport, West Virginia. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and are under the direction of the Tomblyn Funeral Home of Elkins for Linda Caroline Simmons. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.tomblynfuneralhome.com.

Brittany Danielle Alden

Brittany Danielle Alden, of Salem, West Virginia, loving wife, mother and daughter, passed away on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, at her home surrounded by family at the age of 41. She was born May 19, 1983, in Buckhannon, West Virginia, a daughter of Robert Holt and Mary Alice Jones Poling, who ...

Jimmie Jo Simmons

Jimmie Jo Simmons, 73, a resident of Elkins, passed away Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, at Nella’s at Autumn Lake Nursing Home. A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, at the Mountain State Memorial Gardens near Gilman. Albert Brown will officiate and interment will follow. In lieu of flowers, the family request donations be made to your local animal shelter in memory of “JJ’s” love for animals. The family would like thank the staff at Nella’s at Autumn Lake for the excellent care provided to Jimmie. The Tomblyn Funeral Home of Elkins ...

Edna C. (Mongold) Alt

Edna C. (Mongold) Alt, 81, of Petersburg, West Virginia, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, at Grant Rehabilitation and Care Center in Petersburg. Family will receive friends on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Schaeffer Funeral Home in Petersburg. Funeral services will begin at 1 p.m. from the chapel of Schaeffer Funeral Home. Interment will follow in the Lahmansville Cemetery.

George Jonathan ‘Bud’ Freeman

Mr. George Jonathan “Bud” Freeman, 87, a resident of Belington and more recently of the Stonehaven Personal Care Home in Belington, departed this life early Tuesday morning, Feb. 4, 2025, in the care facility. Death was following an extended illness. On April 20, 1937, he was born at ...

Jimmie Jo Simmons

Jimmie Jo Simmons, 73, a resident of Elkins, passed away Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, at Nella’s at Autumn Lake Nursing Home. She was born Feb. 19, 1951, in Elkins, a daughter of the late James and Monna Nelson Triplett. On Oct. 25, 1969, at Saint Brendan Catholic Church in Elkins, she ...